stoolpigeon's Journal: Setting up my AndroidStudio project on GitHub

I started a project to do my homework for the week in the Android class I'm taking. I've been doing the bulk of my work on a desktop machine in my office. This week-end I also set up a dev environment on my Fedora laptop at home. I don't want to have to monkey with copying files and carrying them back and forth so today I set up a GitHub repo so that I could use it to keep things in sync.

I'm no git expert. In the past what I've done is create a project in github with a couple pieces in place. Then I pull that down to a directory on my machine, add the files I need and then push all that back up.

Today I took a little bit of a different approach. I created the project. Then in bash I went to the root directory of the project and set things up. It took me a minute to get it all figured out. The git reference on remotes was a huge help. There is also the JetBrains documentation on git with IntelliJ which is what Android studio is built on.

For my own reference - once I got the project built I needed to add everything. First I went to github and made a repo - but I made it empty, not like I usually do. Then I went to the root of my project in bash.

git add .

and then make an initial commit

git commit -m 'initial commit'

I set up the remote

git remote add origin https://github.com/bittercode/learnandplay.git (bittercode is my github user name and learnandplay is the name of the repo I set up.)

Then I pushed the code to the remote

git push -u origin master

And that put it all up at github. Now I should be able to go home and pull it all down there. I also set up AndroidStudio so that it now handles all the git stuff. When I created a new activity it asked me about adding them to git - so I just said that it should default to yes and now I'm on the fast track to happy days.

Worth a read

[smittyoneeach]

http://think-like-a-git.net/ [think-like-a-git.net]

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[rk]

Definitely a good link. I'm squarely in that "advanced beginners" stage with git. I think my biggest problem to overcome with git is my fear of making branches, taught by nearly 20 years of wrestling with RCS, CVS, and SVN (though branches weren't nearly so bad there as the other two). But I am totally digging the git/github workflow.

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[smittyoneeach]

branch early, branch often.

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[stoolpigeon]

Looks good - thanks for this.